The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-07

kicked and broke it. The leg was
bandaged, and the poor little thing
hobbled about on three legs for weeks
before the bone set. It grew up with
a crooked, miserab1e-1ookingg leg, and
will be three years old next June. I
have seen it trot in the lot as fast as
most colts a run, and so square and
strong, one would not believe it posi-
BILE at it's age to show such trotting
speed eve with four perfect legs.
DR.. Day bought this FLY and her
dam, last autumn for breed purposes.
Now I do not believe it would be a
difficult thing to indnce DR.. Day to
trot this broken-legged inbred Clay
flly against any inbred Hambletonian
colt in the State or any State. The
doctor has it broken to harness, and If
the leg stands his hard driving, Sphinx
will have another invincible cripple to
his credit, besides a number that are
not cripples. No men are so blind as
those who will not see. 1t seems to
me that my many years of defense of
the positive blood value of Henry Clay,
and the facts and comparisons [ have
given should convince u breeders
that we have got something to do
besides breeding to name for prejudice,
or tying themselves to a standard
without blood or reason in it.
I am pleased, as I have said, to see
that gentlemen of age with experience
in the State Of Kentucky are using
wisdom in the place of blind prejudice,
and have secured to the breeders of
their State two such good Clay stall
lions of Sultan and Shawmut. This,
| to me is one of the best evidences pos
sible, that the breeders of Kentucky
are independent gentlemen, and are
not influenced in selection Of stock
horses through p~rejudices, but are
governed by a study into blood values.
Kentucky does not intend to be caught
mapping. They know that we bave
been sending our Acknowledgements
stock-horses and brood mares to
Europe, these many years, and thatin
every instance they have proved far
inferior to the ordinary mongrel hacks,
seen to their hansomes and cabs in
Liverpool, London, Dublin and Edin-
burgh. Such exports have been no
credit to us, while they have caused
our English brothers to believe they
could form a syndicate, buy our west
ern lands, or lands in Canada, then
breed horses suitable for export at
one-half the prices they could breed
and grow them in Europe. I will tell
some of your readers who are not in
formed, that while we have been pre-
senting them in Europe, with our
acknowledgement horses, and adver-
Using Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See as
representatives, of that blood, the
canny Scotchman has been investigate
ing for himself, as we'll as the French
man. They got a Clay stallion or two,
by way of private test. The result
has been that Glen Flora Clay, by Clay
Pilot, has out trotted any other Amer
lean stallion sent abroad to date and
what is more, his get has verified my
repeated writings regarding the supe-
riority of Clay blood over any other
American horse. This fact is now
known in England and Ireland as we'll
as Scotland. Again the stallion Frank
Allison Clay, by Old Clay Pilot, went
to France, where, with all our home
abuse of Clay blood and it's defender,
the horse has won credit to himself for
America, over all other American
bred stations by more fashionable
names. Then for the German Empire,
Clay horse Alexander champion at our
great national speed contest, trotted
at Rochester, N. Y, July 4, 1881
has taken the same banner and laurels
won in America over all other bloods,
carrying them trt1mphantly to the.
front for Henry Clay, before the world
Of breeders. Knowing this, can any
sane man in America wonder that
Kentucky should advertise to the
world of. breeders, the two good Clay
stations Sultan and Shawmut !? They
do not intend that England, Scotland
and Ireland shall ship to buyers in
America, CIay-bred coach, road, saddle
and trotting horses; without home
competition. This advertising Maud
s. as above $500, 900 selling value, is
another subtle inducement for the un-.
informed to breed to fashionable
named stations. But, gentlemen, that
fashionable name did not make the
speed the mare. has shown, She is a
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